Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:07:56 -0400
From: GINA HARRISON
Subject: Your Daily Vote on Facebook can earn $5000 for Northwood Arts Education
KRIS Wine Partners With Americans for the Arts to Support K-12 Arts Education
National “Art of Education” Program to Raise $25,000
Please take few seconds each day to help earn significant funds for Northwood Arts Education. This easy, no-cost fundraiser only requires a vote each day for our school. Encourage all your Facebook friends to participate. We are currently the ONLY NC school in the top 25. Last year, we stayed in the top ten until the last few days. A big community effort could earn NorthwoodArts up to $5000! Grants are awared to the top 16 schools.
We have friends, family, and alumni from SC and TX, to Italy voting daily. We currently have about 500 votes (at 10th place) and the leading school has almost 3500. We need the entire NorthwoodArts extended family to help! You must be 21 to vote, so students—encourage family members, friends, and neighbors!
This fall, KRIS Wine is teaming with Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts, as part of its second annual “Art of Education” program. KRIS will award 16 schools in the United States a total of $25,000 to improve academic achievement through quality arts education. The KRIS program, which runs from October through November 30, 2011, comes at an important time when students and teachers face record budget cuts that threaten arts education programs across the country.
“Over the last several years we’ve seen a significant decrease for arts funding in our nation’s public schools,” said Robert L. Lynch, president and CEO of Americans for the Arts. “This is an alarming trend given the well documented and far-reaching benefits a quality education in the arts provides. Students who engage in arts programs are more literate, exhibit better school attendance and achieve higher grades in all subjects. We are grateful to have a partner such as KRIS Wine that understands the important role art plays in our lives and the welfare of our communities.”
Visit KRIS Wine’s Facebook page (http://apps.facebook.com/krisartofeducation/) to vote for their favorite K-12 public school to win funding for arts education programs. Participants must be 21 years or older and can vote up to one time per day for multiple schools throughout the duration of the program. When the program concludes on November 30, the school with the winning number of votes will be awarded $5,000. The next five schools receiving the top number of votes will receive $2,000. Schools that rank sixth through 16th in total number of votes will receive $1,000.
Complete press release here: http://www.artsusa.org/news/press/2011/2011_10_11.asp
Many thanks to all in our community for your support.
Gina Harrison
NHS Arts Education Foundation